‘Tom‘ is the second single off Damien Jurado’s 17th album ‘The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania‘, the first release from his own Maraqopa Records. The album is a collection of ten stories of people determined not to be broken by their dire circumstances – although the protagonist of ‘Tom’ must surely be getting close to the limit as he contemplates “would you go nowhere if you had a nowhere to go nowhere to?” It’s a sparse arrangement, which just adds to the edgy feel of the song – although nothing is truly revealed there’s a persistent sense of something quite terrible about to happen.
